[Stephen Edgar]

We would love have full WCAG 2.0 compliance 🙂

Our open tickets for further improvements are here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=General+-+Accessibility&order=priority

We will also follow WordPress’ lead and any initiatives by the accessibility team

https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/

There is also the accessibility team handbook: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/handbook/

For bbPress much of what is needed right now is testing of our open tickets to make sure we are on the right track, any help would be graciously welcome 🙂

[Robkk]

@maryt66

bbPress needs some more work to be more accessible to visually impaired users. There are some tickets in the bbPress trac for bbPress for adjusting things like the breadcrumbs markup, notices markup, and some heading changes, etc.

A lot has been suggested for improvements from this gist and I think there could be some other improvements regarding admin link markup, topic status labels, and just having a horizontal layout might be better in the end for users.

Robins plugin I think won’t really help in most of these areas and won’t really make your forums moer accessible, I think only a possible contrast issue in one area at best is what his plugin can help with.

[Robkk]

@haddly

I have noticed a potential legal issue. If the forum users all start receiving notifications and they want to unsubscribe, they can’t do this through the email notification that they receive.
I believe legally, they must have the option to unsubscribe within the email.
can this be done with bbpress?

Yes, there is even a plan to introduce it sometime into core.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2707

[Robin W]

This could be an issue with your rewrite rules. To fix this try resetting your permalinks. In your WordPress Administration Screens navigate to Settings > Permalinks, select a different permalink structure and save. Then select your original permalink structure and save again.

[kellyt]

bbPress Version: 2.5.10
Wordpress Version: 4.5.3

Hello,

The plugin was installed and activated, worked fine until I updated my theme. The plugin is there in the plugins list activated. However, I cannot locate its settings and “forums” to add new forums. All current forums are gone. So, basically when people click on “forums” on my site, it states “there are no forums”. I have even tried deactivating, reinstalling and reactivating but to no avail. How do I fix this issue? I am hoping someone can help me as my site is live and the forums page is not working. I have even contacted the theme developer but before they can help me i am required to pay for support which i am not so sure whether they can help with the problem.

Thank you and much appreciate.

[mobilportal]

Hi,
I have instaled wordpress in folder http://www.mydomain.com/wp
I have instaled bbpress plugin in folder http://www.mydomain.com/wp/wp-content/plugins/bbpress
After install
BBpress list of my forums is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums
and sigle forum “disqus1” is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums/forum/disqus1
and sigle forum “disqus2” is working at URL http://www.mydomain.com/wp/forums/forum/disqus2

I need change URL adress for “disqus1” to http://www.mydomain.com/forum/disqus1
How can I do it?

Thanks Peter

[moedan9]

Hi folks,

Trouble with SMF 2.0.7 to bbpress 2.6 beta import
Wordpress version 4.5.3

I’ve just imported the SMF forums here on my server –

http://www.holistic-counseling.ca/Forums/index.php

to bbpress here on my server:

http://nutopia.cc/Holistic-Counseling-WP/holistic-counseling-community-forums/

you’ll need to login to see.
user [redacted]
p/w [redacted]

At first glance, everything appears fine, although the number in the Posts column seems to be a product of adding the number of topics to the number of replies in a given forum. I don’t mind this.
Freshness shows zero, but that’s not a big deal either bc A) I can fix the freshness (but it results in losing posts and replies in the forums. B) Once new forum posts happen, it will repopulate.

now here’s the main issue
Upon clicking on a forum, it says:

This forum contains 8 topics and 15 replies.

Viewing 4 topics – 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

So the top area states how many topics there are accurately but then only 4 are actually displayed.
This problem is consistent across the other forums. (sometimes only 3 or 2 are displayed when more are stated above)

Any idea what that is about? It’s the main issue.

note: i did a repair Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum
and then the bottom forum dropped to 0 and 0.
Any of the forum repairs that I use that involve Topics creates problems in the number of topics and replies and doesn’t fix anything.

HELP is much appreciated.

since my forums are quite small and seem to be largely well imported, I would be willing to manually fix the incorrect topics and replies in the database. But I have no idea how to do that. At this point, I am satisfied with any solution to get all the topics and posts from the other SMF forum up and running.

[reders]

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

We have our forum index which I’ve created by adding a shortcode to a WordPress page: http://red-ferndevelopment.co.uk/FootballMedic/forums/

This page displays fine as I’ve been able to add a H1 and padding, but clicking into any of the other forum pages has no padding or H1 title tag.

Is there any way of doing this without manually editing each PHP file?

On a side note, I have a couple of questions about general customisation that I can’t seem to find answers for in the documentation, or in the forum. Should I start a new thread or post within this one?

Many thanks in advance.

Many thanks,
Austin

[joshgb93]

Hi,

I’m having some issues between bbpress and Ultimate Member plugin.
Ultimate Member has a feature that lets us add custom permissions on the menu’s links, allowing X user role to see Y links on the menu. It always works well, except when I’m on the forums root (smilang.com/forums), where all logged-in users see the website menu as group X, no matter their current role. If they go on a specific forum or topic, the issue goes away and the menu gets back to normal.

See the images for an example:

On the forums root (Not OK)

Elsewhere on the forums (OK)

I’ve also contacted Ultimate Member’s support team about this, I just did a plugin and theme conflict test, it doesn’t seem like it’s my theme nor any other plugins than UM and bbpress. I’m waiting for their answer now but I was wondering if you could find anything that would cause this.

I’m using bbpress 2.6-alpha, I just updated in hopes it would fix things but it doesn’t change anything. WordPress 4.5.3
Thanks!

[Robin W]

ok, on font/style that link doesn’t have a reply – can you create one so that I can see the issue.

on the topic/reply order – try this plugin – I haven’t used it but it seems to do what you want !

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-sort-topic-replies/

[Robin W]

1. Removing the breadcrumbs

if you are fine with code then :

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

if not then use my style pack plugin to turn them off

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

[Nik_S]

Hi Robin, no change when I disabled all other plugins but switching the theme to the 2015 WordPress default corrected the problem.

So, something in my theme is hiding it, and only hiding it when someone is logged in. Any ideas what could be doing this or where I should look? I can’t find anything that looks significant in the theme’s functions.php file but I suppose I don’t know what I’m searching for.

Thanks for your help!

[Robin W]

bbpress uses much of the theme characteristics so if the theme is compliant then bbpress should be there.

you can also use my style pack

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

to style to get improved fonts etc.

[Robin W]

Nothing immediate that I know of.

direct messaging is a buddypress thing, so suggest you post on their forum in case someone knows a hook you could use.

Forum visibility can be controlled by using

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

which may give you some features you want

[Robin W]

ok, so for the header you have

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-header
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-header

and on content you have

#bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content,
#bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content

You could also download my style plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/

and either use that or look at the styles.php file in the css folder for styling css and use what you need.

[adanoski]

I have WordPress 4.5.3 running AccessPress Pro theme on my site with the latest version of bbpress at 2.5.10.

I have the Search Function in my forum unfortunately the forum is not public. When I try to search, it only searches through the WordPress posts that I’ve created and not through the forum. I’ve searched with words that I know are included in the topics and topic names.

The search is doing the literal opposite of what I want it to do and what it says it should be doing.

[Nik_S]

WordPress Version: 4.5.3
bbPress Version: 2.5.10
Website Link: http://www.sva.bc.ca/newforums/

Well, this is a strange one. The formatting toolbar (above each editor area with the bold, italics, link, etc. buttons) disappears when someone is logged into my forum.

I have already tried disabling all other plugins, to no avail. No change from clearing my browser’s cache or trying different browsers either.

Any ideas what might be causing this?

[Fuskeduske]

Hi Lara,

You could use https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/ for this functionality.

-Mads

[Fuskeduske]

Hi Mkpolo,

I think you mean a quoting function, which can atleast be found in https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/ both paid and free version.

-Mads

[davelr1]

Based on my experience.. my advice to big forums is to use opcache + apply 1925.4.diff patch and be careful with long threads and too many topics under the same group/section.

I have a website that is 1 yo but already have 27 million posts and is only online because of the 1925.4.diff that bbpress staff/helpers provided here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1925

(BTW Thank you @netweb for looking at this ticket)

Even with the patch… I have some trouble with long threads using too much cpu… so I’m always closing threads because of that.

I also got in trouble with high cpu load when we have too many topics under the same forum… because of this problem.. from time to time I create new forums and make the old one a “museum”.

My CPU consumption usually varies from 8 to 30. 40-50 on peak days.
Without doing this “hacks” my website can’t survive… because the cpu consumption goes up to 500 until everything crashes.

[moedan9]

Hi folks,

SMF 2.0.7 to bbpress 2.5.10 import
Wordpress version 4.5.3

I’ve just imported the SMF forums here on my server –

http://www.holistic-counseling.ca/Forums/index.php

to bbpress here on my server:

http://nutopia.cc/Holistic-Counseling-WP/holistic-counseling-community-forums/

you’ll need to login to see.
user test
p/w 123456

At first glance, everything appears fine, although the number in the Posts column seems to be a product of adding the number of topics to the number of replies in a given forum. I don’t mind this.
Freshness shows zero, but that’s not a big deal either bc A) I can fix the freshness (but it results in losing posts and replies in the forums. B) Once new forum posts happen, it will repopulate.

now here’s the main issue
Upon clicking on a forum, it says:

This forum contains 8 topics and 15 replies.

Viewing 4 topics – 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

So the top area states how many topics there are accurately but then only 4 are actually displayed.
This problem is consistent across the other forums. (sometimes only 3 or 2 are displayed when more are stated above)

Any idea what that is about? It’s the main issue.

note: i did a repair Recalculate last activity in each topic and forum
and then the bottom forum dropped to 0 and 0.
Any of the forum repairs that I use that involve Topics creates problems in the number of topics and replies and doesn’t fix anything.

HELP is much appreciated.

note 2: here are the messages from the import
(I think nothing appears out of order to me, but maybe there are some issues with this)

Conversion Complete
No reply_to parents to convert
Converting replies (50 – 99)
Converting replies (0 – 49)
No tags to convert
No super stickies to stick
No stickies to stick
Converting topics (0 – 49)
No forum parents to convert
Converting forums (0 – 49)
Starting Conversion

[Robin W]

It sounds like it would be possible with this plugin

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[Robin W]

This plugin may help you, dependant on your exact need

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-private-groups/

[Stephen Edgar]

FYI https://wordpress.org/plugins/eighties-bbpress/ is a fantastic example of overriding bbPress templates using a plugin 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

https://wordpress.org/support currently runs bbPress 1.x, the plan to upgrade to 2.x is expected to be finished by the end of August.

w.org has ~8 million users, ~2 million topics, and ~7 million posts, we don’t expect any issues here, bbPress 2.6 includes lots of performance tweaks and as @siparker mentioned lots of importer improvements also.